LONDON, March 15 – A dark Francis Bacon painting of a screaming pope, said to be the earliest in his series of papal depictions, went on display in London on Tuesday, the first time the artwork ...

The painter Francis Bacon, descendent of the 16th century philosopher, once said, “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery,” and he certainly succeeded in that mission ...

Unlike Dürer, a virtuosic master of proliferating detail, Bacon used very pared-down means to convey his very modern sense of horror. You can walk past his paintings and feel unmoved.

Bacon evolved from a painter of violence, pathology, and extreme upset-ment, his twisted soul splattered in oil, pastel, dust, and aerosol on canvas -- to become a deft, cool stylist.

As Bacon's paintings go, visitors to the Albright-Knox can judge for themselves, with 48 of Bacon's works -- most from the 1950s but with a few inserted from periods before and after to provide ...

When “Figure in a Landscape” (1946) and “Study After Velasquez’ Portrait of Pope Innocent X” (1953) were included in a 1955 Museum of Modern Art exhibition of European artists, the ...

Seven people suspected of involvement in stealing five paintings by the Irish-born painter Francis Bacon worth more than $27.8 million have been arrested, Spanish police said Saturday. The owner of… ...

Francis Bacon (1909–1992) was a leading figure in 20th-century British art: celebrated, scandalous, and profoundly influential. In 1971, he was at a turning point in his career as he prepared ...

Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.42 million), and one of five ...